Acanthocladia King 1849 (bryozoan)

Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae

Full reference: W. King. 1849. On some families and genera of corals. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 3:388-390

Parent taxon: Acanthocladiinae according to A. Ernst 2001

See also Bassler 1953, Harlton 1933, Sakagami 1981 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Kalvariella

Subtaxa: Acanthocladia anceps Acanthocladia biserialis Acanthocladia diffusa Acanthocladia guadalupensis Acanthocladia laxa Acanthocladia minor Acanthocladia multipora Acanthocladia ouachitensis Acanthocladia regularis Acanthocladia rhombicellata Acanthocladia sparsifurcata Acanthocladia thaiensis Acanthocladia tumulosa Acanthocladia tundrica

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (4), Germany (12), Greece (2), Greenland (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Laos (1), Lithuania (15), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (22), United States (105: Kansas, New Mexico, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Oklahoma)

• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Nevada, Oklahoma)

• Mississippian of United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 204 collections including 219 occurrences

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